Request: Support for Font Width Variants

[sharpjs]

Some fonts have multiple width variants. Iosevka from @be5invis, for example, has an Extended variant. Terminal should support the use of such variants.

Currently:

"fontFace": "Iosevka SS04"

But when asking for the Extended variant, Terminal falls back to a default font — Consolas for me.

"fontFace": "Iosevka SS04 Extended"

I propose support for width variants either through fontFace or through a new fontWidth profile configurable.

Please add this feature request to @be5invis's epic for similar issues, #1790.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Thanks for the report! I think this is mostly covered by /dup #1790 #1751--they suggest that we need something more than "font face name" for selecting the font, and might further posit that we need variant/opentype feature selection.

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[DHowett-MSFT]

(I just realized 1751 wasn't linked up, so that was the important part of the dupe here. Weight and family/face together make up this issue 😄)

[sharpjs]

Thanks. Hopefully we get width and weight support at the same time.

[DHowett]

Figured I'd just reopen this since we're on the cusp of closing it 😄

[sharpjs]

Two thoughts: "Woo!" and "Hoo!". Thanks, Terminal developers! 🙇🏽

[DHowett]

Two thoughts: "Woo!" and "Hoo!". Thanks, Terminal developers! 🙇🏽

@PankajBhojwani deserves most of the credit here. Thanks Pankaj! 😄

[ghost]

🎉This issue was addressed in #10525, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v1.11.2421.0.:tada:

Handy links:

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[AnrDaemon]

And how would we utilize it? No matter how hard I look, I can't see where I could select font variant. So far my only option is to install only variant I want to use.

[zadjii-msft]

EDIT WAIT I'm sorry, I misread this as "font weight" and not font width. Yikes.

I think you need to manually edit the json for that.
See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/profile-appearance#font-features

[AnrDaemon]

It is good I know the specs and details of the font I'm using. But it is all but making the life unnecessarily harder for general use, and any changes to the JSON will be destroyed on any UI changes.
There's no simple way to know what to enter in each block, unless you have a very specific tool to inspect the font you wish to use.

[LtqxWYEG]

Hi
Width is still not implemented and adding the axis code for that does not work:

{
    "cellHeight": "1.2",
    "face": "Iosevka Custom Mono",
    "size": 13.0,
    "weight": "semi-bold",
    "axis": {
        "wdth": 658
    }
}

That should be correct. I've red through some more of the microsoft docs regarding axis's, and the value 658 is exactly one of the width of the font. (Cause you can make the font yourself); I don't get an error but nothing changes. :(

Workaround, though:
Build another font that has only the width you want. (You can't just rename the .ttf. Rename all occurances inside the .toml.) :(
Fortunately, you can define such things with Iosevka. Make one with their customizer on their website, then delete a few lines in the .toml to only leave one width. If you also only leave one weight, building the font is pretty much instant! Experimenting with it to get the perfect width and weight takes no time! 👍
BTW, the shape = 658 value in the can be anything you want! However, 10 is not a valid number. will crush your dreams. (Must be a bug!) The value can be anything between 416 and 720, which is disappointing to say the least. (Presumably, the same goes for weight.) 👎

kind regards :)

[AnrDaemon]

Why this issue was closed, pretty please?

[LtqxWYEG]

Aparently because of a dev misreading the point of this issue, and fixing "it". #10525

But now we have weight adjustment. One missing ;)

[DHowett]

Width is still not implemented and adding the axis code for that does not work:

{
    "cellHeight": "1.2",
    "face": "Iosevka Custom Mono",
    "size": 13.0,
    "weight": "semi-bold",
    "axis": {
        "wdth": 658
    }
}

That should be correct. I've red through some more of the microsoft docs regarding axis's, and the value 658 is exactly one of the width of the font. (Cause you can make the font yourself); I don't get an error but nothing changes. :(

Aparently because of a dev misreading the point of this issue, and fixing "it"

You spelled axes wrong.

That does not indicate that my engineers "misread[...] the point of this issue".

If you spell it right, it works fine. Here's Bahnschrift:

wdth 100:

wdth 30

Do note the e in axes.

[LtqxWYEG]

Ffffssssffs? They wrote evrywhere "Axis". That must have blinded me to "axes". I mean, what do you need multiple axes for? You can't realistically dual-wield them. One's enough.